They're talking about Superman, here, but doesn't this just apply to everybody? Doesn't everybody at least some point(s) in their life feel that this is so about them? Who if asked would say "it's easy to be me"? But there's a point here. When I was six years old or so, I wanted to be Superman for exactly the reason that I believed life would be easier if I were he. Haven't we thought that, that if we were somehow blessed with super strength, life would be so much easier? This song makes the point that that's just wishful thinking, and I will bring up Spiderman, now, the lesson the webslinger learned early on: "With great power comes great responsibility." Yes. When I was young, I read a lot of comic books.
The point was made in different form later in my life: "Where much is given, much is expected." So maybe jealousy is just stupid, if you think about it, wishing you were smarter than someone, or better looking. Sure, sure, maybe you might say, "I can handle the responsibility — give me the looks! (or brains!)" I dunno. I think it might be the onset of wisdom to do as much we can with what we have. What a tragedy if it were to be — and I hope this will never be said of you or me — that at the end of life, to be shown what we were given and that we had wasted it, not done anything with our blessings. We have what we have, right? Let us make the something of ourselves ourselves can be.
And a plug that I must do: the hardest life? By the criteria above, unarguably our Lord Jesus Christ. Son of God. Can't imagine what kind of pressure that must be.
Raymond
1:43pm sunday, 9th december
Wishing that I was some one else is a every day thing for me;but I realized that I am who I am.It is up to me to become the best me I can become.life keeps throwing curveballs at me and I keep missing;but I keep going back to the plate to try and hit one out of the ballpark.One homerun is all it takes to become mvp.Jesus loves us all.
Raymond